NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

Most efforts to build a fusion power plant focus on the tokamak design, which consists of a donut-shaped structure housing powerful magnets that confine high-temperature plasma within the reactor. The ...

Giving a whole new meaning to underground power, startup Deep Fission Nuclear has secured US$30 million in funding to install a micro-reactor in a mile-deep borehole by July 4, 2026 as part of the US ...

NASA wants to build a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon—and fast. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who is also serving as NASA’s interim administrator, has issued new directives at the ...

A company with a vision of installing “discreet, bespoke,” small, nuclear reactors 1 mile underground for data centers and other electricity-hungry industries plans to put its first reactors in Kansas ...

Apart from the geopolitical importance, there are other reasons why this move is critically important. A source of nuclear energy will be necessary for visiting Mars, because solar energy is weaker ...

A company with a vision of installing “discreet, bespoke,” small, nuclear reactors 1 mile underground for data centers and other electricity-hungry industries plans to put its first reactors in Kansas ...

California-based Deep Fission says it will install an underground reactor in Kansas. Deep Fission says it plans to install a nuclear reactor underground at an industrial park in southeast Kansas.

Theoretically, there's no better, more practical source of reliable, carbon-free energy than the current generation of nuclear reactors. In practice, the theory holds water, but there are still a few ...

HFIR reactor operators working from a motorized bridge use hand tools that are 30 feet long to work on the reactor core submerged in a pool 17 feet deep. Veterans of the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion ...